Products of Slavery: a Supply Chains data visualization project to make you know where slavery and forced labor are with the products you consume

Com­pa­nies have a unique abil­i­ty to address forced and child labour with­in their sup­ply chains. Con­sumers also have a vital role to play in call­ing for com­pa­nies’ action to end forced labour.

Vis­i­tors to the Prod­ucts of Slav­ery web­site can explore maps, charts and oth­er inter­ac­tive dis­plays about forced labour and child labour used to make 122 dif­fer­ent prod­ucts in 58 coun­tries. The data visu­al­i­sa­tion reveals vital infor­ma­tion about the ori­gins of these prod­ucts, whose jour­ney to the super­mar­ket shelves is usu­al­ly so well con­cealed in today’s glob­alised economy.

The pri­ma­ry source of data in this Prod­ucts of Slav­ery visu­al­i­sa­tion comes from the U.S. Gov­ern­ment, specif­i­cal­ly a report pro­duced by the Depart­ment of Labor’s Bureau of Inter­na­tion­al Labour Affairs (ILAB) in 2009 called “List of Goods Pro­duced by Child Labour or Forced Labour – Report Required by the Traf­fick­ing Vic­tims Pro­tec­tion Reau­tho­riza­tion Acts of 2005 and 2008”.

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